A Snapshot of Your Day
As Head of Factory Loading & Operational Excellence, you drive the transformation of the Berlin Switchgear Factory toward a highly automated, resilient, and data‑driven Smart Factory 2030. You ensure balanced factory loading, operational excellence across all value streams, and lead the PMO that governs strategic initiatives, Hoshin Kanri, OKRs, and performance alignment. Working closely with Manufacturing, Planning, Engineering, and Leadership, you shape capacity, output performance, and digitalization initiatives that unlock growth, efficiency, and competitiveness for our global switchgear business.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Ensure continuous, balanced factory loading by managing capacity, bottlenecks, output performance, and market‑aligned demand steering across GIS, AIS, and Component value streams.
- Drive Operational Excellence using SEPS/Lean, digitalization, and automation technologies, improving throughput, stability, and efficiency KPIs.
- Lead the PMO as the central hub for strategic programs, ensuring alignment with Hoshin Kanri, OKRs, and the factory's Perform‑Transform roadmap.
- Oversee major transformation initiatives including automation rollouts, layout optimization, Flexline expansion, and Smart Factory 2030 projects.
- Implement data‑driven performance management with transparent dashboards, standards, and cross‑functional alignment.
- Foster a Zero Harm and continuous‑improvement culture that empowers teams through leadership, clarity, and accountability.
What You Bring
- Strong leadership background and extensive professional experience in Operations, Manufacturing, Lean/Operational Excellence, or Supply Chain.
- Proven record in factory transformation, automation, digitalization, and performance improvement.
- Experience in PMO leadership, Hoshin Kanri, OKRs, or large‑scale strategic program execution.
- Excellent analytical and KPI‑driven decision‑making skills, familiar with capacity planning and output steering.
- Ability to simplify complexity, standardize processes, and drive cross‑functional alignment.
- Inspiring leadership style with strong communication, change‑management capability, and a passion for continuous improvement.
About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is
the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in
HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers,
and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
- We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
- We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
- The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programs and learning materials are available for this purpose
- In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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